re: Your top albums of 2012(Posted by Baloo on 10/8/12 at 11:10 am to SUB)

quote:Whoa! What if 90% of the album is fart noises?

then he'd be surprised and disappointed. Especially after hearing the first single, which is pretty great.

For me, this year is Cloud Nothing's Attack on Memory and then everything else. It is so far and away my favorite album this year, it is staggering. Nothing else is even on the radar. I feel it has lapped the field, so far.

Next in Queue: Lumineers Killers Divine Fits Two Door Cinema Grizzly Bear I'll take suggestions from the crowd. Anybody?

Recent albums I wasn't feeling: Purity Ring (I gave this two listens...wasn't hitting me) Dirty Projectors (I might could give this one more listen) Kimbra (got recommended by a female friend who usually gives me good muzak recommendations -- put me onto Passion Pit back in the day, and god bless her for that* -- but I just wasn't feeling it).

_______________ *Though it would have been much better if she would have put me onto Passion Pit and also had sex with me. Really hot girl. And, yes, I tried. Was denied. It happens. I don't like getting friendzoned by females any more than you do, but it is okay so long as you actually made an attempt. If you made an attempt and then failed -- and you got the feeling that persistence might not pay off -- then just go ahead and preemptively friendzone them if they're cool. But if they friendzoned you before you even made an attempt...well, that's just weak. Why didn't you make an attempt, dude? Just try to stick your tongue down her mouth. Worst she can say is no.

re: Your top albums of 2012(Posted by Baloo on 10/10/12 at 10:45 am to The Seaward)

That review made me hard. Love this section:

quote:So maybe it’s best to think of Local Business as the Jackie Brown to The Monitor‘s Pulp Fiction: The quietly powerful follow-up to the attention-grabbing watershed, the one that proves its makers are grown-ups in it for the long haul. And, I mean, have you watched Jackie Brown lately? That movie fricking rules. It holds up, years after the context has faded.